WiNDUP Unity Short Film

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Client: Unity
Written & Directed by Yibing Jiang
Producers: Aleksander Karshikoff, Silvia Rasheva
Executive Producer: Junbo Zhang
Animation Director: Jason Keane
Animators: Yining Cheng, Maria Beliaeva, Lisa Allen Keane, Alexander Fleisig
Art Director: Yibing Jiang
Cinematographer: Adam Habib
Environment Art: Shiyao Jiang, Jesus Orillan
Vegetation: Chris Kang
Character Art: Colin Thomas, Han Lin
Character Rigging: Victor Vinyals
Shading: Yibing Jiang, Chris Kang
Lighting Lead: Laurent Harduin
Character Lighter: Vina Kao Mahoney
FX Artist: Chris Kang

This beautiful short film was created in real-time in out-of-the-box Unity 2019.2 using regular home-office desktop computers. It showcases what it is possible to achieve with real-time animation.
Building these character rigs was quite a challenge, since the requests from the Unity team where both real-time performance and feature-film quality, and all within a strict set of rules about poly-count and rigging features, like limiting the use of blendshapes, using joints instead of animation caches, etc.
The rigs were created in Maya and then exported into Unity, where they would run in real-time.
Category
CG Short